Stimulating the spinal cord can elicit sensation in the missing foot and alleviate phantom limb pain in people with lower limb amputations.

A tiny device called a spinal stimulator may one day restore mobility to people with lower limb paralysis, researchers report.

Neanderthal spines and the Industrial Revolution offer clues to the back pain people experience today.

A two-million-year-old fossil vertebrae shows Australopithecus sediba used their upper limbs to climb like apes and their lower limbs to walk like humans.

Back pain affects more than 50% of people who go to space, research indicates. The condition is now dubbed "space adaptation back pain."

For early amphibians, moving from water to land and, for some, back to the water left an impression—on the shapes of animals' spines.

Using a patient's own stem cells may offer a way to repair spinal cord injuries. In a new study, researchers saw improved walking and motor function.

The vast majority of low back pain emerges without injury, especially in old age. A new study sheds light on what may be going on.

A new study offers a model for creating a sustainable neurosurgery programs in poor, remote locations.

This may be the first video of cerebrospinal fluid waves flowing through a sleeping person's brain.